Always Loved A Film
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Taken from Underworld‘s forthcoming album Barking.
Archive for the ‘underworld’ Category
Underworld iPhone App Coming?
Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Underworld at Glade 09
Underworld have long embraced direct selling through there website, live CDs at their shows, and any number of additional ways of making money from their music other than just flogging CDs, so it’s no surprise to hear rumours of an iPhone app that will let you remix some of their hits. Supposedly this will tie in with making their back catalogue available on iTunes.
Not much firm info on this yet, but what details there are are available over on the Dirty Forums.
[Image: Underworldlive.com]
Manny’s To Close
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Underworld's Modified Gibson Les Paul
Not for the first time, nor for the last time, another great shop is closing down. Manny’s in New York is a world famous instrument shop and news of it’s demise comes via a post on the Underworld website. I couldn’t agree more with them when they say “… it’s the staff that make a place bad or good”. I buy off people at every given opportunity. Websites are great and all that, but it’s hard to beat talking to knowledgable staff about products they are passionate about. They best ones will even tell you what not to buy! Click through to read more about the used-to-be-plain-white guitar in the picture above.
Underworld Live In Sydney NYE
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009Everything, Everything by Underworld is one of my favourite DVD’s of all time. Painstakingly put together over the course of a year, sliced together from lots of different performances around the world, the band constructed what they thought was the best possible re-creation of one of their live gigs for home watching and listening. They did an amazing job too. (I’m seriously considering renting out a cinema some night just to have a playback party with some friends – maybe Denzille Cinema?)
Anyway, nearly 10 years later, technology has moved on to the point where one man and his camera can capture a full gig in HD, and upload it to YouTube for the whole world to see. While I’m really happy to be able to watch this concert, it feels like a new chapter is opening up in the whole royalties / free downloads / copyright infringement issues debate.
For a lot of bands right now, live performance is the only thing bringing in any real cash. To put a web content spin on it, the unique content of a concert is worth money to people, and they have to buy a ticket to see it. A lot of bands, Underworld included, also sell CDs of their concerts, and getting that extra tenner from a percentage of the crowd can make a big difference to the profitability of a show.
While I don’t agree with the heavy handed tactics of Prince and the like trying to remove all footage of their concerts from YouTube, is posting a whole concert going to far? Does it make a difference if the band isn’t selling a recording of that gig?
A little Underworld for the Picnic converts
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Roll on Brixton on the 31st of October… 
Inky Inky Finger
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
For anyone wondering about the name “Inky Inky Finger”, it comes from the Underworld track Parc (originally known as Darc), which is released tomorrow in Japan on the CD/DVD release “The Bells! The Bells!”.
You can buy it directly from HMV.co.jp and Amazon.co.jp or wait and it should be available from the online shop at Underworldlive.com.